Notes on the Geography of The West Bank: Southern Countryside: Photo 1

A land of "milk and honey"? This "field" is planted to wheat, which may or may not produce a crop worth harvesting. Much of the land sloping east and west from the plateau south of Jerusalem looks this grim, so when Palestinians and Israelis lay claim "to every inch" of the West Bank, this is what they're fighting over. Of course they'd disagree and perhaps say, arguing by analogy, that fighting for a flag is not the same as fighting for a piece of cloth.